The Permanent Vacation

Tourism is not just an industry. It is a worldview, a way of life that amplifies an already alarming affliction of being elsewhere, everywhere and, therefore, nowhere.

Cultural CommentaryGods&RadicalsFebruary 2, 2024tourism, Capitalism, Real Estate, CommunityComment

Capitalism in the Digital Era of Language Models

It’s easy to subscribe to business gurus and generic finance tips that don’t address the fundamental question of how to achieve an authentic and fulfilling existence in this world.

Capitalism, Cultural Commentary, EditorialMirna Wabi-SabiJanuary 19, 2024Capitalism, capitalists, folklore, quencher, Stanley, google, language, searches, SEO, marketing, scamsComment

An Ode to the Game of Poker

The biggest obstacles to women in the poker world are: “having the money to play and the confidence in their ability to win.”

Capitalism, EditorialMirna Wabi-SabiAugust 10, 2023Poker, Feminism, Capitalism, anticapitalismComment

A binary society: Hegel’s dialectic in a capitalist world

While the master position presents debt as liberating — one can invest the money wisely, pay for education, strive to make a living — it is the ultimate mechanism of economic slavery.

Article, Capitalism, working classGods&RadicalsJune 1, 2020Hegel, Debt, capitalism, Capitalism, philosophy Comment

Rio's Concentration Camp: the drug scene in the favela Maré

The Crackland in Rio— Portraits of people from the drug scene in the favela Maré.

Article, Capitalism, Cultural Commentary, Decolonization, History, Land, media, Politics, StruggleMirna Wabi-SabiAugust 21, 2019drugs, poverty, Capitalism, Fascism, Brazil, Rio, crack, corruption, Violence, photographyComment

Brazil's "Dictatorship Deniers": the new guise of capitalist hegemony

We’ve impeached a President, replaced her with a criminal, and now we are run by militia. A severely flawed Democracy has been replaced by a Military Dictatorship that barely bothers to disguise. Where but in a dystopian world is this framed as “Freedom”?

Capitalism, Editorial, Politics, SocialismMirna Wabi-SabiApril 1, 2019Brazil, bolsonaro, dictatorship, anti-capitalism, Capitalism, keynesian economics, Marx, militancy, português, portugueseComment

The Cloud Seeders Part Three

‘Recovering our pagan traditions we could learn again to swim in the skies, return with cloud seeds to sow new myths, new rites, to recite and paint the poetry of clouds’ - Lorna Smithers

Climate ChangelornasmithersNovember 15, 2018The Cloud Seeders, Aerial Spirits, Cloud Seeding, Renaissance, Eugene Boudin, Weather Magic, Meteorology, CapitalismComment

Economic Egregores: How Belief Drives the Power of Money and What We Can Do About It

"[S]ince it has become increasingly clear that stocks, and even money itself, is entirely based on a perception of value, which is by nature subjective and mutable, the only question becomes how that perception of value is influenced? And who is doing the influencing?”

Paganism, re-enchantment, Resilience, Ritual, Struggle, Theology, WitchcraftSable AradiaOctober 16, 2018brands, Brazil, Capitalism, egregores, fake money, money, value Comments

Against All Oppression

Gods & Radicals supports the right for All to live peacefully, without harm from those in power. There are no ifs and buts nor exceptions to the rule.

Editorial, Uncategorized, Violence, Warriors, working classEmma KathrynAugust 10, 2018Capitalism, Equality, Feminism, opression, State Comments

The Police Aren't Here For You

The police are an increasingly militarized arm of an increasingly fascist state, hired thugs for capitalist oligarchs, the modern-day version of slave catchers, a terrorist organization. When I came to see this, then abolishing the police didn't seem so crazy anymore.

Anarchism, Community, ProtestsJohn HalsteadMay 31, 2018abolition, Capitalism, Police, racism, statism Comments

To Spite The Face: a review of Insurgent Supremacists by Matthew N. Lyons

opposition to fascism is not as easy as completing a Buzzfeed quiz or reading an Everyday Feminism listicle.

Book, Review, The New Right, TheoryRhyd WildermuthMay 18, 2018Alexander Reid Ross, Capitalism, Democratic Party, far right, Fascism, Insurgent Supremacists, Jack Donovan, liberalism, Matthew N- Lyons, PM Press, Timothy McVeigh, White Nationalism, Wolves of Vinland Comments

The Alchemy of Waste

Lorna Smithers follows her garbage from her bins to its destinations and uncovers how polluting chemical industries are profiting from the alchemy of waste.

Environmentalism, UncategorizedlornasmithersApril 18, 2018Afagddu, Alchemy, Capitalism, Chemical Industries, Energy From Waste, Landfill, Plastic, Recycling, The Alchemy of Waste, Waste Comments

Escaping the Otherworld: The Reenchantment of Paganism

The real danger to Paganism is not so much that our religion will be outlawed, but that there will be no reason to outlaw it.

PaganismJohn HalsteadOctober 2, 2017Capitalism, consumerism, Disenchantment, escapism, immanence, magic, other world, Pagan, paganism, positivism, re-enchantment, reductionism, reenchantment, religion, transcendence Comments

On Reconciliation and Capitalism

The system is such that life outside of it, at least while it exits, is almost impossible.

Emma KathrynSeptember 23, 2017Capitalism, paganism, Reconciliation, Witchcraft Comments

Paganism™

Magic and connection are not things you can buy.

Editorial, Enclosure, PaganismRhyd WildermuthAugust 22, 2017America, Baudrillard, Big Tent Paganism, Capitalism, Peter Grey, Rhyd Wildermuth Comments

When is Paganism not Paganism?

What Capitalism tries to hide from the seeker is that Paganism is free.

Cultural Commentary, PaganismEmma KathrynAugust 18, 2017Capitalism, consumerism, environmentalism, paganism Comments

Lies That Capitalists Tell Us

From William Hawes and Jason Holland

EnvironmentalismWilliam HawesJuly 14, 2017Capitalism, Jason Holland, William HawesComment

Violence is "Not Good"

A small percentage of the world is benefiting from Capitalism, while the rest of the world lives in abject poverty. At some point, those people may decide they’ve had enough, and the backlash will be ‘not good.’

Rhyd WildermuthMay 26, 2017Angela Davis, Bourgeoisie, Bran, Branwen, Branwen fearch Llyr, Capitalism, Efnysien, Non-Violence, poverty, The Mabinogian, Violence, Welsh Myth Comments

Capitalist Extortion in the Pagan Community

From John Halstead: Extortionist behavior is not aberrant — it's a feature of a capitalist system.

PaganismJohn HalsteadMay 22, 2017bailouts, Beliefnet, BN Media, Capitalism, capitalists, Corporatism, extortion, Patheos, troll Comments

What's A Nice Atheist Like Me Doing At Gods & Radicals?

My worldview does not accommodate supernatural beings that exist separately and independently of human beings. In that sense I am an atheist. And yet, my world is full of gods...

John HalsteadAugust 30, 2016Alienation, archetypes, atheism, Capitalism, connection, Disenchantment, enchantment, Gods, Indra, interconnectedness, Polytheism, Prayer, radical, re-enchantment, ritual, sun, theism Comments

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